There is, however, a distinction to be made between the two correspondents.

In the letters and verses of Marguerite there is seen gleaming forth here and there a sentiment of truth and tenderness, a free and graceful play of fancy.

We have three collections of her writings: 1.

her _Heptameron, ou les Sept Journees de la Reine de Navarre,_ a collection of sixty-eight tales more or less gallant, published for the first time in 1558, without any author's name; 2.

her _OEuvres poetiques,_ which appeared at Lyons in 1547 and 1548, in consequence of her being alive, under the title of _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses_ (the Pearls of the Pearl of Princesses), and of which one of her grooms of the chamber was editor; in addition to which there is a volume of _Poesies inedites,_ collected by order of Marguerite herself, but written by the hand of her secretary John Frotte, and preserved at Paris amongst the manuscripts of the Bibliotheque nationale; 3.